Housing Finance Systems Hardcover

India

Phang, Professor Sock-Yong

The term 'housing crisis' has, in recent times, been associated with rising foreclosure rates and tottering financial institutions, particularly in the US and Europe. However, in many rapidly urbanizing emerging countries, the housing crisis is about urban poverty, unplanned settlements, overcrowded slums and homelessness. Both these faces of the housing crisis require solutions for housing finance mechanisms and systems that lie at the root of each. A well functioning housing finance system can play an important role in helping to fulfil multiple objectives - promoting social and political stability, enhancing housing market performance, as well as contributing to financial sector stability and development. However, the complex systems within which it is embedded are also vulnerable to risks from multiple sources of market, political, and regulatory failures. This book draws on a wealth of examples from around the world to provide a road map for building more resilient housing finance systems.

1137014024

9781137014023

English

Palgrave MacMillan

07 Feb 2013

217

Sock-Yong Phang is Professor of Economics at the Singapore Management University and holds a visiting appointment at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is also Senior Research Fellow at the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics as well as a Commission Member of the Competition Commission of Singapore. She has spent most of her career studying and writing about housing and transportation economics.